Biden Should Begin Calling AOC Now
Wilkinson in Bloomberg: Sanders, whose attacks on the Democratic Party are always his most heartfelt, may sabotage that effort. But the brightest star in the American left, who also happens to be one of...
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Bloomberg is out of the presidential contest but his money stays in
From Reuters: After a not-so-Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg is out of the presidential nomination contest. But the power of his $60 billion fortune is staying in.
Bloomberg’s Exit Is a Likely Boon for Biden as Roughly half of former NYC mayor’s supporters have Biden as their second choice
From Morning Consult: 48% of Democratic primary voters backing Michael Bloomberg said Joe Biden is their second choice for president, compared with 25% who said Bernie Sanders and 15% who said Elizabeth Warren. Polling...
Stopping Bernie is not the Same as Choosing Joe
The Week: Why Anybody-But-Bernie may have resulted in Biden winning the nomination, but not the general election: Biden also has particular risks that are not easily quantifiable but still obvious. He has run a...
Bloomberg drops out after terrible Super Tuesday, endorses Biden
From The Hill: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped out of the 2020 race on Wednesday after a disappointing performance on Super Tuesday despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars in advertisements. “Three months...
Inside the 2020 campaign messaging war that’s pelting our phones with texts
From Fast Company: Texting has exploded in political campaigns, with over a billion texts expected to be sent during this election cycle. But how effective are they?
World Health Organization just Announced the Wuhan Virus Mortality Rate is 3.4% — As this website reported a week ago
From CNBC: World health officials said Tuesday the mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% globally, higher than previous estimates of about 2%. “Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,” WHO Director-General Tedros...
Warren takes aim at Biden: A ‘Washington insider will not meet this moment’
Warren slams Biden as a Washington insider who won’t change.
Bloomberg: I’m not dropping out
From Politico: A defiant Mike Bloomberg beat back criticism of himself and his campaign Monday in a Fox News town hall, arguing that he is, indeed, a Democrat and has no reason to follow...
Bloomberg says Biden is “taking votes away” from him, vows he’s “in it to win it”
In a testy exchange with @CeciliaVega and other reporters, Michael Bloomberg says Joe Biden is "taking votes away" from him, vows he's "in it to win it," and demands reporters ask Biden whether he...
Trump Mulls Funding for Wuhan Virus Treatment of the Uninsured
This may be part of the Wuhan virus funding package now being considered by Congress.
U.S. plans ‘radical expansion’ of coronavirus tests
CBS News: Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar on Sunday would not predict how many Americans would contract coronavirus, but said the U.S., which currently has the capability to test 75,000 people...
VP Press Secretary: Pence Did Not Meet or Come into Contact with Student
Can we all take a deep breath? @Mike_Pence did not meet or come into contact at all with this student. https://t.co/uLzvnVcoS4 — Katie Miller (@VPPressSec) March 3, 2020
Twitter Tells All Employees to Work at Home Due to Virus Concerns
From CBS: Twitter is asking its entire workforce of 5,000 people to work from home, part of its effort to keep employees safe and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The company said working from...
South Florida Woman Told “You Likely have the Virus,” But we Can’t Test You
CBS Miami: On Wednesday, February 26, afraid of being trapped in Italy, she flew home, stopping over in Madrid, before boarding an Iberian Airlines flight to Miami. She landed at Miami International Airport around...
Politico: A Quick Look at the Differences in the Biden and Sanders Coalitions
From Politico: First, the results today will tell us what the two main coalitions really look like. The first four small states offered clues, but the total number of voters in the 14 Super...
A Brokered Convention Would Be an Ugly Act of Self-Sabotage, Is the DEMpire willing to destroy the party on live television?
Burmila in The Nation: Many writers, such as Shuja Haider in The Outline, have made the argument that to deny the nomination to Sanders in this hypothetical would be unfair and undemocratic. Other writers, like Julia Azari...
Mayor Pete Outraised Biden by $15 Million
From FiveThirtyEight: “Bernie Sanders, who leads in name recognition at 91.7 percent, was the first-place fundraiser in terms of money raised from individual donors in the fourth quarter. (This total excludes money raised from other sources, like transfers from...
The Other Reason Warren is Still In — She’s Making a Play for Buttigieg and Klobachar Voters
Brownstein in the Atlantic: So far, neither Sanders nor Biden has proved himself particularly well-suited—especially in stylistic terms—for the white-collar white voters common at events for Buttigieg, Warren, and Klobuchar. Sanders’s best showing among...
The Intercept: Trump is the Greatest Threat Ever, Right Up Until He’s Not — And Sanders Is
From The Intercept: FOR FOUR YEARS, Democratic officials have insisted that Donald Trump is an unprecedented threat to the republic, a fascist and racist dictator whose removal from power is the paramount, if not the only, political...
Are Children the Carriers of the Wuhan Virus?
From the NY Post: “The ex-director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the deadly coronavirus may be ‘impossible’ to contain — and that kids may be secret carriers...
Virus Could Be The End Of China As A Global Manufacturing Hub
And so it turns out that Trump’s tariffs on China, which forced American business leaders to start looking for a new manufacturing partner, may have laid the groundwork for American companies to leave China...
Tim Cook’s Bad Apple Bet on China
From the WSJ: Apple’s reliance on China has long frustrated staff—and more recently unnerved investors. The coronavirus represents Apple’s third major setback there in as many years, including the fallout from tensions with the...
Wuhan Virus Mortality Rate is still 3.4% — 34 Times the Mortality Rate of the Flu
According to the Wuhan virus map managed by John Hopkins CSSE, the total infected worldwide is 89,253 and the total worldwide dead is 3,048. This means a mortality rate of 3,048/89,253 x 100 =...
New York State has First Confirmed Case from Iran
Business Insider via Yahoo News: New York confirmed its first case of novel coronavirus on Sunday evening. “The patient, a woman in her late 30s, contracted the virus while traveling abroad in Iran, and...
CDC Test Kit Fiasco to Improve Soon
ScienceMag: Speed is critical in the response to COVID-19. So why has the United States been so slow in its attempt to develop reliable diagnostic tests and use them widely? The World Health Organization...
Ex-FDA Chief “community spread” is underway in at least two, perhaps four states: CA, OR, WA and IL
From Bloomberg News: There may be “hundreds or low thousands” of coronavirus cases in the U.S. that haven’t been reported yet and “community spread” is underway in at least two and possibly four states,...
The transition to the Wuhan Virus being World-wide — Waiting to See the Mortality Rate
From Bloomberg, via Yahoo: In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that...
Americans are canceling their domestic travel over coronavirus fears
Washington Post via MSN: Major companies are beginning to cancel conferences and travel plans within the United States due to the coronavirus, which analysts warn will have cascading impacts on the country’s hotels, airlines...
HHS Sec. Tells Congress Wuhan Virus Testing Kit Issue is Fixed
LA Times via MSN: “We’ve only had a handful of labs that can test with it. The rest have been on pause,” said Scott Becker, the executive director of the Association of Public Health...
Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread of Coronavirus
From ProPublica: As the highly infectious coronavirus jumped from China to country after country in January and February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost valuable weeks that could have been used...
Biblical Rain and Storms Set for the Southern U.S. on Super Tuesday
Who won’t stay home? The committed. Sanders people. What’s a little rain to have a shot at Medicare for All and student debt payoff? From Forbes:
McCaughey: Wuhan Virus is 40 Times More Deadly than the Flu
McCaughey in FOX: It spreads faster than flu and is over forty times as deadly, with a mortality rate of 2.3 percent compared with the flu’s 0.05 percent. It is also harder to contain because infected...
HHS External Affairs: COVID-19 Information and Resources for States, Schools and Healthcare Professionals
COVID-19 Information & Resources 1-Page Fact Sheet on COVID-19: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/2019-ncov-factsheet.pdf Resources for States COVID-19 Overview: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html Embed code to create auto-updating page on your website with latest from CDC: https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/microsite/id/403323 Pandemic Preparedness Resources: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/pandemic-preparedness-resources.html ...
Noonan: Wuhan Virus Could Give Sanders the Opening he Needs
Noonan: It is in crisis that you see the difference between showmanship and leadership. Early signs are not encouraging. The messaging early this week was childish—everything’s under control, everything’s fine. The president’s news conference...
Iranian Health Official: “It’s possible that it exists in all cities in Iran.”
From Reuters: While there are only a few known cases in India, one source said the country’s available countermeasures and the potential for the virus to spread given India’s dense population was a focus...
“Qom feels like a Shiite Disneyland,” — The Reasons Religious Practices in Qom, Iran will Spread the Wuhan Virus throughout the Muslim World
From The Atlantic: Picture the following sacred but unhygienic scene: Pilgrims from a dozen countries converge on one small city. They stay in cramped hotels, using communal toilets and eating meals together. For their...
Stock Market Takes a Political Risk Discount after President Trump’s Press Conference on the Virus
As CNBC reported: “Dow plunges 1,100 points, bringing its decline from a record high to more than 10%,” and is, in part, due to the significantly increased level of political risk to President Trump...
How the CDC’s Test Kit Shortage and Failure to Develop an Accurate Test is Responsible for the Unknown Number of Infected in the U.S. — We are Flying Blind
From Stat News: The discovery that a California woman was likely infected with the novel coronavirus by a previously unrecognized case in her community is proof of an enormous problem the country is facing at the...
California has Only 200 Wuhan Virus Test Kits on Hand
From CNBC: California health officials have 200 testing kits on hand and will be receiving more over the next few days, Newsom said. “We have just a few hundred testing kits and that’s surveillance...
NYT: DEMpire Elite Believes “no one candidate would clinch the nomination during the primaries and that there would be a brokered convention fight in July to choose a nominee”
From the NYT: Dozens of interviews with Democratic establishment leaders this week show that they are not just worried about Mr. Sanders’s candidacy, but are also willing to risk intraparty damage to stop his...
Bloomberg Decision Matrix if Sanders Wins Dem Nomination
Bloomberg believes Sanders will lose to Trump. Therefore, once Sanders wins the Dem nomination, it follows that the only possible path to defeating Trump is for Bloomberg to run as an Independent. It’s also...
Acting DHS Secretary Gets the Virus Mortality Rate Wrong in Congressional Testimony and the Mortality Rate of the Flu Wrong Too — He needs to Resign Immediately
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf should resign immediately. To get these basic facts so incorrect means he needs to leave. Right now. Wolf says (see video below) that the Wuhan virus...
Global Mortality Rate of Virus is 3.4% — 34 times the Mortality Rate of the Flu
From Worldometers as of February 27, 2020, at 0400 Greenwich Mean Time: Total Infected: 82,166 Total Dead: 2,804 Mortality Rate: 2,804/82,166 x 100 = 3.4% mortality rate. This means the Wuhan virus has a...
China Takes Control of America Factory in China Producing N-95 Masks — Cancels Orders to U.S.
From National Interest: “China put export restrictions on those masks and then nationalized an American factory that produces them there,” said President Donald Trump’s director of trade and manufacturing policy, referring to N95 masks, used for...
China Tells Ships with Medical Gowns, Surgical Gloves, and Masks Bound for U.S. Hospitals to Turn Around and Come Back to China, they Need Them
From Coronavirus is Killing China’s Factories and Creating Economic Chaos: Americans are angry. “I was on the phone with leaders from several hospitals in New York, and they told me that they had contracts...
Korean Air Flight Attendant Working LAX Flights Diagnosed with Wuhan Virus
From CBS LA: LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A flight attendant for Korean Air who worked several flights out of Los Angeles International Airport has been diagnosed with coronavirus. The 24-year-old was diagnosed Tuesday in southern...
McCaughey: CDC’s Lack of Test Kits means They are Flying Blind — How You Can Protect Yourself
Betsy McCaughey in the NY Post on where the virus is now: The only known US cases are travelers to China, their spouses and cruise-ship passengers. But people carrying the virus entered the United States...
WaPo: Dem Voters See Sanders “as a Weapon Against a Governing Class that has Failed Them”
From The Washington Post, via MSN: “The party has shifted to the left, and I don’t think many of the more traditional, legacy leaders of the party got it,” said Andrew L. Stern, a...
CDC Expects Virus to Spread as Testing Kit Shortage Leaves U.S. National Pandemic Surveillance System Blind
WSJ: Meantime, many state and local health departments in the U.S. don’t have the test kits they need to rapidly diagnose coronavirus infections because federal health authorities are still working out kinks. The limited availability...